Valid Names Results

Trabutina elastica Marchal, 1904 (Pseudococcidae: Trabutina)

Nomenclatural History

• Trabutina elastica Marchal 1904b: 449. Type data: ALGERIA: South Algeria, on Tamarix articulata. Lectotype, female, by subsequent designation (DanzigMi1996,40). Type depository: Paris: Museum National d'Histoire naturelle, France; accepted valid name Illustr.

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Foes:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• Hodgso2020: pp.32-34 ( Adult (M) ) [higher groups of Pseudococcidae]
• DanzigGa2015: pp.495 ( Adult (F) ) [Trabutina species]
• DanzigMi1996: pp.11 ( Adult (F) ) [World]

Remarks

• Systematics: This species is most closely related to T. mannipara because each of them possesses unusuall large oral-collar tubular dducts on the venter of the thorax, 2 or 3 sizes of dorsal oral-collar tubular ducts, and the trilocular pores on the venter are concentrated in a submarginal longitudinal line from the head to the apex of the abdomen. T. mannipara differs in possessing more than 15 pores on each side of anal ring; it has anterior ostioles; usually with dorsal conical setae and without dorsal multilocular pores. T. elastica usually does not have pores on the anal ring, but when present never with more than 5 on each side; no anterior ostioles; no dorsal conical setae; several dorsal multilocular pores on posterior abdominal segment. (Danzig & Miller, 1998)
• Structure: According to Marchal (1904) the ovisacs are elastic, white, oval or irregularly spherical in young females. Their form depends on pressure from neighboring specimens. A shiny well defined suture ending at the anal opening goes along the sac median line. The anal opening of the female ovisac is at its edge; it becomes more dorsal as the female matures. Old ovisacs are large and covered with prominences of crystallized honeydew. (Danzig & Miller, 1996)
• General Remarks: Good description and illustration of the adult female given by Gomez Menor Ortega (1948) and by Danzig & Miller (1996).

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